Harrishawker - Here in Southern California the average black tailed jackrabbit I believe is between 3.5 to 4.5 pounds. I weighed an exceptionally large one once out of curiousity and it came in at 7.5. White-tailed Jacks are much larger, but I have no first hand knowledge to share. Take it easy on me Sue..... ;D
Post by harrishawker on Jan 10, 2008 15:05:57 GMT -5
pennstatepitt said:
From "Gazehounds and Coursing" by M.H. Dutch Salmon "The antelope jackrabbit weighs 6-12 pounds with the average about nine and rarely to 15 pounds." I guess they are only found in parts of Arizona and New Mexico though. Anyone see/hawk them? I can't beleive the size of these jacks, pretty amizing for an Eastern boy who's hunted cottontails since I was twelve. I might think it was a deer if one of those jacks jumped up in front of me I see that the jacks are in the same genus as the European hare, so I guess they could correctly called hares. Is that right, or is there a difference between hares and jackrabbits?
My answer is...I don't really know?
I would only guess that perhaps they are Hares but somewhere along the lines they where called Jack rabbits in your country. Anyone know why they are called....JACK? Just a inquiry. Then why is a Cottontail much smaller than our Rabbit, surely it must be a native species to America and not related to our Rabbits.
Interesting
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Post by Master Yarak on Jan 10, 2008 16:18:47 GMT -5
Evolutionary mutation within the same Genus is not uncommon. I am fairly certain they all came from a common ancestor. In Texas we have Lagomorphs that get around 7-9 lbs. We also have what is referred to "swamp rabbits" they are larger than the CTs and are less abundant. Yarak
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Post by dirthawker on Jan 10, 2008 16:21:20 GMT -5
I have seen and hunted the whitetail jack. they are a hard quarry and pretty tough even for a cast of male Harris hawks. even tough for the hen gos but is well worth pursuing. a good soaring hen RT can do it a little easier, and the fruge does it good also. other than that if I do a cast of harris's again it will be hens. to go for the jacks. the last white tail that I saw caught was 13 LB. had the cast 4 male harris's and they all just got shook of like water off a dogs back
Post by harrishawker on Jan 11, 2008 0:49:44 GMT -5
dirthawker2004 said:
I have seen and hunted the whitetail jack. they are a hard quarry and pretty tough even for a cast of male Harris hawks. even tough for the hen gos but is well worth pursuing. a good soaring hen RT can do it a little easier, and the fruge does it good also. other than that if I do a cast of harris's again it will be hens. to go for the jacks. the last white tail that I saw caught was 13 LB. had the cast 4 male harris's and they all just got shook of like water off a dogs back
Now that i liked to have seen. That thing must of been huge. If it happens again please tell us on here of the drama that unfolded it would make great reading
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